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'Call up your beast, said the planter, and Deesa shouted in the mysterious elephant-language, that some mahouts believe came from China at the birth of the world, when elephants and not men were masters. Moti Guj heard and came. Elephants do not gallop. They move from spots at varying rates of speed.
But the wild herd broke away and ran shrieking up into the Vindha Hills. Coming down from Mitha Baba's neck between Skag's hands, the Gul Moti smiled into his anguished eyes. "Carlin! Are you safe?" he asked. "Safe now!" she answered. The tone of that low "now" startled him. "Where have you been?" he breathed. "Far " she said, "very far!" "But where?" he questioned.
Chihun ran after him with a rope and caught him up. Moti Guj put his ears forward, and Chihun knew what that meant, though he tried to carry it off with high words. 'None of your nonsense with me, said he. 'To your pickets, Devil-son. 'Hrrump! said Moti Guj, and that was all that and the forebent ears.
Her face was actually strange the awful pallor the fire. It left his brain a blank to other impressions, for minutes. The Gul Moti only glimpsed the stone-white face of her American, beside the Chief Commissioner, as Neela Deo charged past, on his way to take over the fight that was taxing Gunpat Rao to the last breath before defeat. Neela Deo had seen at once where he was needed most.
She took it, smelt it, wiped it vigorously on the ground, smelt it again, and chattered angrily at the boys; then she went nimbly hand over hand to the very top of the banyan-tree she lived in; and then she deliberately broke it into little pieces and pelted the givers with them. 'She is not hungry to-day, said Moti. 'Let us take out the falcons.
Then he saw himself, sitting forward in the canoe as he had often sat in the past, dipping a paddle that waited Moti's word to dig in like mad when the turquoise wall of the great breaker rose behind them. Next, he was no longer an onlooker but was himself in the canoe, Moti was crying out, they were both thrusting hard with their paddles, racing on the steep face of the flying turquoise.
'Deesa, said he, 'you've spoken the truth, and I'd give you leave on the spot if anything could be done with Moti Guj while you're away. You know that he will only obey your orders. 'May the Light of the Heavens live forty thousand years. I shall be absent but ten little days. After that, upon my faith and honour and soul, I return.
Sunni, too, found it hot when the pundit came. But an English pundit 'Moti-ji, said Sunni, laying his arm around the little prince's neck as they rode together, 'do you love me? Moti caught Sunni's hand as it dropped over his shoulder. 'You know that in my heart there is only my father's face and yours, Sahib's son, he said. 'Will you do one thing, then, for love of me? asked Sunni eagerly.
His gorge rose at the thought that Irene might be near him at that moment, yet prevented by some ruffian from making known her presence. The belief was torturing; it impelled him to a deed which, in calmer mood, he would have declared foreign to his nature. Handing Moti to Abdullah's care, he went so near to the driver, a man of powerful build, that he could look into his sullen face.
Now Moti had never been on a horse in his life, and had so much ado to hold on with both hands as well as with both legs that the animal went just where it liked, and very soon broke into a break-neck gallop and made straight back to the serai where it had spent the last few nights. 'This will do very well, thought Moti as they whirled in at the entrance.
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